West Hartford Pride A Month of Pride beginning June 3rd. Festival on June 21st, 2025!

West Hartford Pride is an incredible month-long celebration ending in a festival day filled with joy, storytelling and opportunities to network and connect with family, friends and statewide resources. We are grateful to our committee, our sponsors and our volunteers who helped make the month such a success!

Funding has been provided by the Connecticut State Legislature and is administered by the Department of Economic and Community Development, Office of the Arts.

Awesome new event, bringing pride to my home town! - Michael M.

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SCHEDULE of 2025 EVENTS & Activities

West Hartford Pride, June 2025 Calendar of Events

June 2nd @ 5:30PM
PRIDE Flag Raising with CT Attorney General William Tong, Deputy mayor Ben Wenograd and performance by miss bonnie petit
at Unity Green Farmington Ave and S. Main St

Monday, June 2nd at 5:30

June 5th @ 6:30PM
Pride KICK OFF PARTY at New Park Brewing with Sister Funk,
Special Drag Performances and DJ ron marq
New Park Brewing at 485 New Park Ave

Thursday, June 5 at 6:30pm

June 12th @ 6:00PM
Tracey’s Pride Ride With Grand Marshal Anne Stanback and Bike West Hartford!
BiCiCo at 616 New Park Ave, West Hartford

Thursday, June 12 at 6pm

June 21st @ 12:00PM
Pride Rally & Festival
speakers! live music! Drag performances! vendors! food trucks! family activities!
at West Hartford Town Hall, 50 S. Main St., West Hartford, CT
Tuesday June 27th
all are welcome, inclusion of the queer community in religious spaces
at Congregation Beth Israel, 701 Farmington Ave, West Hartford
Tuesday, June 27, 2025

West Hartford Pride Month

@PrideWeHA

2025 Pride Parking
Benefits of sponsoring pride

Sponsorship is a key part of Making Pride Happen! Our sponsors help us to not only put on an award winning world-class Pride celebration as well as support community efforts around the region. In addition, you help us to foster and support ongoing advancements in equity and inclusion for all of our LGBTQ+ community, year-round.

For information regarding sponsorship opportunities, please email our Sponsorship Team at sponsorship@westhartfordpride.org

West hartford pride crosswalk

The painting of the Progress Pride Flag “Crosswalk” in Blue Back Square. The West Hartford Art League selected West Hartford artist Brian Colbath to paint the crosswalk on Saturday, June 20, 2020. He was joined by his daughter Gillian as they worked in the heat of summer. The design celebrates Graphic designer Daniel Quasar who added a five-coloured chevron to the LGBT Rainbow Flag to place a greater emphasis on “inclusion and progression”. The Progress Pride Flag adds five arrow-shaped lines to the six-coloured Rainbow Flag, which is widely recognized as the symbol of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community. The black and brown stripes represent marginalized LGBT communities of color, along with the colors pink, light blue and white, which are used on the Transgender Pride Flag. Quasar says the black and brown stripes represent those living with AIDS, and those no longer living. The transgender flag, designed by Monica Helms in 1999, consists of one horizontal white stripe, surrounded by two horizontal pink stripes and two light blue stripes. Quasar has reshaped the form of this flag into a chevron in his updated design. He says the main section of the flag incorporates the six-stripe flag so as to not take away from the initial meaning, while the additional elements form an arrow shape that points to the right, to represent “forward movement”. They are placed along the left edge of the flag to state that “progress still needs to be made.”